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Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the Higgs particle

discoverer of the 1964 predicted Higgs particle, Peter Higgs and Francois Englert, received the Nobel Prize in Physics. The Elementary Particles 2012 was first observed at CERN-center.

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The discoverer of the 1964 predicted Higgs particle, Peter Higgs and Francois Englert, received the Nobel Prize in Physics. The Elementary Particles 2012 was first observed at CERN-center. From Norbert Lossau Norbert Lossau Biography and all articles by this author

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The Nobel Committee in Stockholm has awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2013 on Tuesday noon. This is the physicist Peter Higgs and Francois Englert. That gave the Nobel Committee at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm announced Tuesday.

The 84-year-old Briton Higgs and the 80-year-old Belgian Englert have a particle predicted decades ago that is referred to by scientists as long Higgs particle. Detectable but it was not until recently.

existence of the “God particle” for decades unclear

The so-called Higgs particle is an important missing component of the Standard Model of physics. It is needed in the world of physicists to give all other particles mass and therefore often referred to in the media as the “God particle”.

everywhere in the cosmos through the existing Higgs field particles is all – away like a fly with honey beads – so given inertia and mass. The detection of the Higgs particle is extremely difficult because it itself has a relatively high energy.

energy of 125 billion electron volts

To put it in a particle accelerator to create and demonstrate this high energy must be applied only once. The actual existence of the Higgs particle was finally observed by experiments at the LHC particle accelerator at CERN research center in Geneva last year and now definitely established. Now, after the discovery, we know that the energy of the Higgs particle is around 125 billion electron volts (GeV).

For comparison, in our everyday life in the electrical and electronics such a great role-playing has only one electron energy of 511,000 electron volts

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order to make the Higgs particle arrest, only once had to build a new, giant particle accelerator. At CERN, the underground Large Hadron Collider (LHC), in which two opposing beams of protons with high energy can be shooting at each other was.

Own particle accelerator built

Although there were theoretical models with which the energy of the still-hypothetical Higgs particle could be limited. But you could not be sure whether the energy of the LHC has been designed, would actually be enough to discover the Higgs particle – if it should exist at all at all

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As on 4 July 2012 was promulgated in the jam-packed auditorium of the CERN research center in the presence of Peter Higgs, the discovery of this particle with high probability is successful, roared great applause.

The Nobel Prize is worth $ 1.2 million. On Monday, the prize for medicine was awarded to a German and two U.S. citizens on Wednesday follows chemistry. Prices go back to the businessman Alfred Nobel.

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Photo: AP The British physicist Peter Higgs of Edinburgh University. Decades ago, he said particles named after him ahead now for the meantime he received the Nobel Prize in elementary proven.

Photo: pa / dpa / KEYSTONE The Belgian physicist Francois Englert at a press conference at CERN

Photo: AFP Even sober physicist let their tears flow: At CERN in Geneva, the discovery of a new particle was announced in 2012, which is to the long-sought “God particle”, the Higgs particle should act.

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